Coming Up: Project Management Training

Jim Milliken's Effective Project Management workshop series is scheduled for next month at USM and at UMaine's Hutchinson Center.

At USM's Abromson Community Center in Portland, the three-day program will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays March 13, 20 and 27.

At the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast, the dates are Thursdays March 21 and 28, and April 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The course is designed for managers and professionals who work in group activities to innovate change and create solutions. Participants typically have been managing such work for some time without formal preparation, and are interested in improving their skills and reducing time and effort. Effective Project Management is rich in "Aha!" moments for them they learn common-sense ways to set up and organize complex innovations.

USM also has scheduled the three-day follow-on course, Implementing Project Management. This second design builds on the basic Project Management design, examining actual projects, identifying problems/solutions, developing plans and practicing skills project managers need on the job. Those dates are Tuesdays April 9, 16 and 23.

Jim Milliken is a consultant and coach who invests decades of in-the-grind experience in helping individuals and organizations become more productive and communicate more effectively.

He works on-site with executives and managers to improve the processes and structures of organizations. In companion consultation, Jim provides customized skill-building counseling in the key skills of management and professional performance.

And he is an interviewer and writer known for producing insightful reports and profiles; he provides professional editing services for newsletters and for writers of magazine articles and books; and he coaches writers in a broad range of disciplines. For professionals in midcareer, he provides counseling in workplace advancement and job interviewing/resume skills.

Jim Milliken has been designing and delivering online college courses for undergraduate and graduate students for 10 years.

Communication is the lifeblood of human organization, in small partnerships and large corporations – and the pipeline to their markets. Jim provides practical approaches to all the oral and written forms.

Personal Productivity is fundamental, and it consists of skills that can be examined, practiced and perfected. Likewise Leadership and Supervision. Jim has common-sense training designs for dozens of these essentials.

There is no obligation, financial or otherwise, arising from a preliminary discussion of consultation or training solutions.